[Faline]

A Sydney bus driver has been hailed a hero after saving the life of a passenger who collapsed and stopped breathing. Video shows driver Amar Wahid keeping an eye on an out-of-breath woman after she struggled to get on board the bus at Burwood at 9.10am last month, Nine News reported.

Seconds later she collapsed, stopped breathing and turned blue.

Mr Wahid rushed to her side and performed CPR, which he had recently updated his knowledge of after becoming a father.

"I started doing CPR on the lady and got her alive again and then all of a sudden she collapses again," he told Nine News.

He continued to perform CPR for 12 minutes until paramedics arrived and took over.
The woman was taken to hospital and has since recovered.

Paramedics praised Mr Wahid for his calmness in a life-threatening situation and NSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian said he was a "model bus driver".

"He is a typical hero, a modest hero, who did what he had to do when a woman collapsed and saved her life," Ms Berejiklian said.

But Mr Wahid said he didn't see himself as a hero.

"Other drivers, I'm sure if they know what they're doing they would have jumped and done the same thing to assist that person," he said.

"I mean, it's someone's mum and someone's wife."

Mr Wahid, who lives in Holsworthy in Sydney's south west, came to Australia as an Iraqi refugee in 1999 and is now an Australian citizen.

[Desensitisation]

Good to see there are folks out there ready to do the right thing.

[spills]

Excellent! Good show, especially seeing he was an Iraqi immigrant. That's one in the eye for idiotic bastards who shout, "MOOOSLIMS!" whenever there's anything bad! (Notice the white woman just getting off and pissing off down the street? Cow!)

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by Desensitisation ↗

Good to see there are folks out there ready to do the right thing.

yep. a model bus driver.

guess that other woman was late as she split the scene.

[icheerthebull]

Originally Posted by spills ↗

Excellent! Good show, especially seeing he was an Iraqi immigrant. That's one in the eye for idiotic bastards who shout, "MOOOSLIMS!" whenever there's anything bad! (Notice the white woman just getting off and pissing off down the street? Cow!)

yepguys a hero

[PJB]

best part is, that he looks like a gangbanger.

amazing example of not to judge by the look